Matthew Specktor Quotes - Page 2

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• One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

  Matthew Specktor

  Cities, Perception, Negative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

  Matthew Specktor

  Running, Records, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

  Matthew Specktor

  Individual, Process, Scales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Play, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

  Matthew Specktor

  Celebration, Sometimes, Prelude

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

  Matthew Specktor

  Ideas, People, Hated

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

  Matthew Specktor

  Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Ridiculous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Pleasure, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

  Matthew Specktor

  Apology, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Problem, Los Angeles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

  Matthew Specktor

  Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

  Matthew Specktor

  Lying, Writing, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Vitality, Gains

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Giving, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Trying, Tvs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Nothing To Lose, Written

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

  Matthew Specktor

  Self, Care, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Self, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

  Matthew Specktor

  Sacrifice, Decision, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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